Sports Solidarity

It's hard to envision a time before soccer was big business in the United States. But until a few decades ago, U.S. national team players weren't even paid and had little say over their travel or working conditions.  That's where Mark Levinstein comes in. Mark is a legendary sports lawyer who has represented USMNT players as head of the U.S. National Soccer Team Players Association sin...

In this episode, Harry sits down with UFL player-leaders Kenneth Farrow II, Jack Kramer, and Kedrick Whitehead Jr. to discuss how players came together to build the United Football Players Association and negotiate a historic collective bargaining agreement. Before organizing, players faced inadequate health coverage and little say in the conditions affecting their careers. Instead of accepting th...

In this episode of Sports Solidarity, host Harry Marino is joined by Brandon Copeland, co-founder and CEO of Athletes.org and former NFL linebacker, and Casey Floyd, co-founder of DYK Media, for a timely conversation on Washington’s continued push to reshape college athletics. The NCAA-backed SCORE Act was pulled from this week’s House agenda, but the broader effort toward federal intervention in...

The first episode of Sports Solidarity with Harry Marino goes inside the historic effort to unionize Minor League Baseball. Harry Marino is joined by Joe Hudson, Jose Brizuela, and Brandon Withers, three player leaders who helped drive the campaign to organize thousands of minor leaguers. They share what life was like before the union, how organizing took shape across clubhouses, and how players t...

Sports is a trillion-dollar industry. But sports aren’t just games – they’re workplaces. Sports Solidarity with Harry Marino goes behind the scenes of one of the most visible and powerful industries in the world. The show is hosted by Harry, an attorney and former professional baseball player who led the unionization of Minor League Baseball and has since led landmark collective bargaining negotia...